Price Reduction =)

[Volsung]

No, I understood it was simply talking about service fee, but thanks

[Eugenics]

"if you consider this the "launch" of the game where we start paying, it is pretty up to par endgame wise to most other games at launch with its endgame content"

What games? pacman?

[Rowyne]

you read it wrong
your actualy paying 8 per month if you choose the 180 day plan(3 per month per character on top of the first number)

Yeah, the whole extra cost for characters is duping people into thinking they'll be paying less than they really will be.

Another thing I don't like about this business model.

[TheVedis]

"if you consider this the "launch" of the game where we start paying, it is pretty up to par endgame wise to most other games at launch with its endgame content"

What games? pacman?

you havent played other games at launch obviously

[Eugenics]

Obviously NOT.

[Chopin]

I'm sure the majority of people who play will barely notice this much coming out of their account. I'm more than happy with the price and look forward to future development of this title.

Thanks SE, looking forward to 2012.

[Mushy]

I understand their reasoning to charge for additional characters, but why do they have to charge for having 1 character? They make it somewhat confusing. Just say it is $9.99, plus $3 for addition characters.

Not $6.99 for services, and $3 for your first character. You cannot have one without the other.

Confusing thats all... though $6.99 including one character sure is tempting!

[Katella_Avenlea]

It seems that SE's PR department could do them a huge favor by just simplifying how they post their prices. Some details just cause confusion. No one is going to pay for the monthly service and not have at least 1 active character so they can play it. Why don't they just say..

Reg Subscription Price: $12.99/mo for additional characters add $3/ea
Discounted Subscription Price: $9.99/mo for additional characters add $3/ea

Just stop listing the character fee separately... Additional character fee, sure, but don't even have show an option that no one is going to use. No one in their right mind is going to pay for the game subscription and not have a single character to actually play the game with.

Also..

since this game does not allow one character to experience each story line it means 1 character cannot do everything in game.
also, many people care a great deal for playing different races due to all of their visual aesthetics (animations, physical looks, some gear is displayed differently on different races)
therefore, i have no idea why it is necessary to charge per character.
if its to minimize RMT characters, why not make free characters a fixed amount? RMT characters will forever and ever exist in every MMO regardless of any steps taken.
3 free characters sounds more than fair to me.

^ This is exactly it. You like to think that if you pay for the game, that every single piece of content will be available to participate in (assuming you spend the time on it).

While I tend to prefer SE's way of letting you work on growing one character instead of splitting my attention between many, I can totally see why people would like to have one from each city-state/grand company. Especially those who like the story aspect of these kind of games. I think to include three character slots would be very reasonable. I personally wish they would. Then charge whatever they want from there on, charge $5.00 per additional character past the three for all I care because past three, really is a vanity situation.

Another reason why I can see people wanting additional characters is that some (like me) have friends that don't play as often as they do. Because there is no "Level Sync" System here, I personally had made a second character, because neither I nor my friend think we should be "required" to powerlevel our way through in order to play together. We don't find being power leved enjoyable. We'd rather play to actually play and experience things at the levels intended, not just to be "ran through". People complain about Level-Sync being a form of powerleveling, but hey, I'd take it any day over the way people are power leveled now. At least when Level-Sync'd, people were actively participating in their own leveling.... but that is a whole other topic...

[bird]

Can't wait till the forums are full of people who actually play the game. Literally put your money where your mouth is.

(this wasn't directed at anyone in particular. )

[Soukyuu]

Xeonerable,
the payment options are going to change and you can put in exactly crysta amounts of your choice.

You can already do this, i tried.